Real wages stagnated, manufacturing moved overseas, and both parties built policy apparatuses that seemed to answer to boardrooms and institutional continuity rather than kitchen tables. The clearest economic expression of that mandate is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which inverts the standard conservative playbook. AdvertisementThe same instinct shows up outside tax policy. Critics are right to raise these points, and a piece arguing this policy’s merits owes them a real answer rather than a dismissal. Sci., American Thinker, The Humanist, AFRO American, South Asia Monitor (on editorial board), and others.